Information

Quick meaning: Information is a noun meaning Something that provides a definitive characterization or description of the nature and attributes of a specified entity.

Meaning

Something that provides a definitive characterization or description of the nature and attributes of a specified entity.

More Meanings

1. Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.
2. The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.
3. (now rare) The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.
4. (now rare) The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.
5. (computing, formally) The meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.
6. (law, countable) A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment.
7. (obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.

Example Sentences

I need some more information about this issue.

For your information, I did this because I wanted to.

And ſo much yet did this contagion breake foorth to the harme of manie Inhabitants of his Towne, who affected the Vicont, that they which were encountred by the kinges troupes, (information being geuen of their demeanor) they were iudged to be of good prize, and voluntarely paid ranſom.

That friend, […] added, with a smile, that he had more than once amused himself with the thought of a verbarian Attorney-General, authorized to bring informations ex officio against the writer or editor of any work in extensive circulation, who, after due notice issued, should persevere in misusing a word.

Word Forms

• informations

Synonyms for information

Depending on context, synonyms include entropy, info, data.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include info, data, entropy, identification, informative, informing.

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